Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Varun Kashyap & Sridevi Reddy
Co-Founders, Zithara.ai
Transforming Indian Offline Retail and Customer Engagement Using AI

Xiaomi has launched just two new smartphones this year- the Xiaomi Mi 6 and the Xiaomi Mi Max 2 in China. Usually, the company launches only a few devices in the first half of the year, keeping all the devices due for second half of the year. The trend is continuing this year as well as Xiaomi is saving budget smartphones such as Xiaomi Mi 6c, Xiaomi Redmi Note 5, etc.

Another smartphone in the pipeline would be the newly spotted Xiaomi ‘riva,’ which is an entry-level smartphone with basic specifications. The Xiaomi riva is spotted in Geekbench and achieved a single core score of 560 and multi-core score of 916. The scores are not so impressive, so does the specifications in the listing.
The Xiaomi riva will be powered by a quad-core Qualcomm processor, likely to be the Snapdragon 425 or 427 SoC. The chipset is accompanied by 3GB of RAM, and the device is running Android 7.1.2 Nougat, which is an unusual sign as most of the Xiaomi smartphones are running MIUI 8 based on Android Marshmallow.
Well, the Xiaomi riva could be the successor to last year’s Xiaomi Redmi 4A. Besides the processor and amount of RAM used, there are not many details known about the phone for now. Having said that, Xiaomi might release the smartphone sometime in September this year along with other budget Redmi smartphones.
